Valorant on an Nvidia GT1030 and Ryzen 5600x @ 1080p

This is to demonstrate that you don't need a high end graphics card to get decent frame rates in Valorant provided you are willing to put up with no anti-aliasing. It also shows that if you have a decent CPU you can record with decent quality as well without hardware encoding (this was recorded at 60fps using software encoding with OBS).

0:00 Introduction
0:38 low settings no anti-aliasing
1:57 low settings MSAA 2X anti-aliasing
2:43 Med settings no anti-aliasing
3:47 high settings no anti-aliasing
4:17 high settings no anti-aliasing capped at 144fps
5:29 med settings no anti-aliasing capped at 144fps
6:48 low settings no anti-aliasing capped at 144fps

System specs:
Asus Tuf Gaming X570 Pro wifi
Ryzen 5600x manual PBO 95 ppt 94 edt 63 tdc 150 boost no co
4 X 8GB gskill 3600 cl16 ram with tightened timings 14-13-12-12-22
Inno3d GT1030 with GDDR5 Ram (don't get a DDR4 ram model!) Not Overclocked.

So apart from the graphics card the machine is a pretty decent spec.
I'm thinking about doing a comparison between fast ram and ram running at jdec defaults, to get an idea of how much ram speed affects valorant as well.

Note that despite what people say (ie that Valorant is a cpu intensive game) the graphics card is still the limiting factor here. The CPU is quite comfortable and a better graphics card will certainly allow higher frame rates. With a better card, turning on anti-aliasing should not have such a dramatic effect on frame rates.

Recorded using OBS with H.264 software encoding, which adds about 15% to the total CPU load. Frame rates without OBS running are a bit higher (maybe 10 - 20fps). The video has been upsampled to 1440p to retain the original recording quality.